President Obama launched an extraordinary attack on David Cameron last night
for having allowed Libya to deteriorate into lawlessness and become a haven
for Islamic State.

In highly unusual criticism of a serving British prime minister from his
American ally, Mr Obama claimed that Mr Cameron stopped paying attention
soon after the 2011 military operation because he was “distracted by a range
of other things”.

Mr Obama also made clear that he forced Mr Cameron to sign up to Nato’s
benchmark of spending 2 per cent of GDP on defence. “Free riders aggravate
me,” he told The Atlantic magazine, which